The insider’s guide to shopping at Craft 2.0

This guest post comes dir­ect to us via the very tal­en­ted Emma of Emma Makes This Sat­urday it’s Craft 2.0 time again and I’ll be selling. I thought I’d also share some of my inside tips to mak­ing the most of the fair… Become a friend of Craft 2.0 Sign­ing up to become a friend […]

Let the handmade revolution begin

Well ok it’s already star­ted, but Wel­ling­ton is mak­ing a giant leap for­ward in cel­eb­rat­ing all things you can make by hand this Queens birth­day week­end at HANDMADE 2011. Yes it’s a bold state­ment but when an event takes over Te Papa and the area around it you know it’s not just for a lark. […]

fabric-a-brac

It’s the third year for fab­ric-a-brac and demand is still as strong as when they began as a quirky little event for die hard fans of fab­ric. But now it’s a must attend day for any­one who loves mak­ing things. fab­ric-a-brac on Sat­urday fea­tures the usu­al fab­ric and sew­ing accessor­ies gems, but  expan­ded out into […]

Jamming culture

Sat­urday’s Jamoff at Craft2.0 was a great suc­cess. We were on the spot with this video report. Jams were giv­en marks out of five based on attrib­utes of taste, col­our, set, ori­gin­al­ity and present­a­tion. In a field of 24 entries, your cor­res­pond­ent achieved a near per­fect score of 3–3‑3–3‑2 in his aim to pro­duce the […]

The little Fair that Could – Turns 5

Sat­urday marks the 5th birth­day of Craft2.0, it’s not only wel­ling­ton’s biggest space for all things bespoke, hand­made and indie design, it’s also New Zea­l­ands. Which is some­thing pretty awe­some and rather spe­cial, that’s happened because people keep vis­it­ing the fair and dis­cov­er­ing all the new tal­ent – and yes shop­ping. Craft2.0 is held at […]

Rumble in the Jumble

The Great Eclect­ic Jumble sale is back, for those of us who love  all things vin­tage, the Jumble sale is like a single op shop on crack, and really good high qual­ity crack at that. This annu­al sale is packs out St Ann’s hall with fab­rics and tex­tiles, but­tons, jew­ellery, hats, gloves, shoes, cloth­ing, bags, […]

A great yarn – what Tash did next

Remem­ber Tash from It’s A Tree? Not con­tent to rest on her laurels – or tuis, or flowers, badoom chish – she’s kept her­self busy in the world of wool, open­ing up Hol­land Road Yarn at 281 Jack­son Street, Petone. We thought we’d have a chat to Tash and see exactly what was going on…

We be jammin’

Have you planned your Craft2.0 exper­i­ence around Jam off? Because you should,as the Great Wel­ling­ton Jamoff is hap­pen­ing dur­ing Craft2.0 on the 23rd of April and judging kicks off at 2pm. I prom­ise it’s going to be bey­ond spe­cial. Last time, it pretty much shut down the old Bank Arcade dur­ing judging, not only because […]

JUST GOOD STUFF is back for 2010

Craft mad­ness!  Cre­at­ive cre­ations!  6 days to solve all your Christ­mas shop­ping needs, while sup­port­ing loc­al cre­at­ives – it’s prac­tic­ally guilt-free! Fea­tur­ing JUST GOOD STUFF from: Genevieve Pack­er, Gabby O’Con­nor, Lucy Adams, Phil­lipa Cow­drey, Ala­nah Gib­son, Wendy Neale, Ngaere MacKin­non, Flora Way­cott, Isel Greta Jane, Her­mon & son, Flora Gray, Tess & Gab, Mary Adams, […]

Jewels of Whitireia

On Thursday night the Annu­al 2010 Whitireia Stu­dent Con­tem­por­ary Jew­ellery Auc­tion will be held at Mighty Mighty with Nation­al Radio presenter Kim Hill con­trolling the ham­mer as auc­tion­eer. Donated con­tem­por­ary jew­ellery is being sent from all over New Zea­l­and for the event includ­ing pieces from con­tem­por­ary jew­ellery prac­ti­tion­ers Peter Deck­ers, Mat­thew McIntyre Wilson and Owen […]